'MISSION' AT 45: THE CYLON ATTACK CONTINUES!

With the firepower of three Basestar compliments of fighters at his command, Baltar launches his most devastating Cylon Raider attack yet on the Galactica, bringing destructive carnage in its wake, deliberately targeting its bridge and the landing bays. 

Baltar relishes the last Battlestar's destruction...

Attacking the Gemini freighter.

Colonial Vipers speed in to attack the Raiders.

The Raiders continue their fleet attacks.

The fleet's food supplies are threatened, as the Agro Ships come under fire.

Fires spread out across the Galactica bridge. How much longer can they hold out?

The Vipers are overwhelmed but valiantly fight on against the Raiders, as the enemy conflicts spreads out across the Colonial Rag-Tag fleet, a deliberate action by Baltar so as to drain their colonial battle thruster fuel supplies further.

'GALACTICA 1980': THE CYLONS ARE BACK!

Having followed the Colonials for years, the Cylons once more begin their attacks on the rag-tag fleet, one of its superior advanced attack craft, and its wingmen, going in against the Gemini freighter holding many of the human fleet's children, in this tense scene, and recomposited optical work, from The Super Scouts.

CLASSIC IMAGE: AN ALTERNATE FLEET!

 

Not something seen in the original Saga of a Star World, but a fun composite image of some kind of Colonial Fleet, and with two mighty Battlestar protectors no less, presumably put together by the Apogee team, and used for publicity and merchandisers (namely for puzzles) of 1978.

CLASSIC IMAGE: EXPLORING THE GEMINI FREIGHTER!

When it came to designing spaceships for the Rag-Tag Fleet, the classic series couldn't have had a better model designer/artist than Joe Johnston, who gave us a truly intriguing and diverse array of used craft, like the impressive 'Gemini Freighter' model that was eventually sold off to the highest bidder during a special film/TV model prop auction from a few years back...

CLASSIC IMAGE: PROBLEMS WITH CORE COMMAND!

Their arrival on the food-starved Gemini freighter causing a whole load of additional problems, Lt. Boomer manages to keep his cool despite his frustration, in a memorable scene from Saga of a Star World.

CLASSIC IMAGE: "SURPRISE!"

Colonial Vipers spring out from behind the Gemini freighter and begin their counterattack on a Cylon Raider force, in this moment from Saga of a Star World.

CLASSIC IMAGE: THE NEXT DESTINATION

Having surveyed the ailing Gemini freighter and its packed to the rafters inhabitants, the Galactica shuttle heads back to its mother vessel, with patients bound for its Life Station, in a scene from Saga of a Star World.

CLASSIC IMAGE: CONVOY TARGET PRACTICE!

A Cylon attack squadron pushes forward in its attack on the near defenceless Rag-Tag fleet, in this scene from Saga of a Star World. A fuller version of the effects sequence would be shown in the theatrical compilation feature Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack.